Santa Fe Soup or Chili- Sheia

This one is for you Sara-glad you liked it!

1-1 ½ lb. Ground beef
Brown with a medium size onion-diced
2 small cans shoe-pegged corn (drained)
1 can red kidney beans (don’t drain)
1 can black beans (don’t drain)
1 other can of beans (or 2 of one of the above beans)
1 envelope taco seasoning mix
2 envelopes ranch dressing mix
1 large can whole tomatoes (can chop or puree)

Dump everything into a crock pot and cook for approximately 2 hours.

Serve with sour cream, grated cheese and Frito scoops, or corn bread.

valentine glazed sugar cookies.......................Courtney

I saw these on the channel 2 news and thought they looked really good. I'll be making them sometime from now and Saturday.

7 cups flour
1 cup butter
2 cup sugar
3 eggs
1 cup dairy sour cream
1-8 oz package cream cheese
1 tbsp baking powder
1 tsp baking soda
1 ¼ tsp salt
1 tbsp vanilla
½ tsp almond extract

Mix flour, baking powder and salt together.
Cream together butter, sugar, and cream cheese.
Add sour cream, eggs, vanilla, and almond extract. Blend to incorporate.
Add flour mixture and mix until combined.
Chill in refrigerator.
Roll out, cut in desired shape and bake in a 350 degree oven for about 12 minutes or until edges are slightly browned.

Cookie Glaze:

1 stick butter
½ cup milk plus 3 tbsp
¼ cup light corn syrup
32 ounces powder sugar (2 pounds)

Melt butter in a large microwave safe bowl.
Add remaining ingredients and mix together until smooth.
Dip cookies in glaze and place on a wire rack. Allow glaze to set for about 1 hour. Enjoy!!!

Here's the site if you want to see the video or at least what the finished product looks like.

Abuela's Macaroni & Cheese - Erin Abrams

8 oz. bag elbow macaroni (I usually cook up more than 8 oz.)
1/2 cup butter
6 Tbsp. flour
2 cups milk
1/4 cup more milk
8 oz. grated cheddar cheese (or about 2 - 2 1/2 cups)
1/2 tsp. garlic salt
salt and pepper to taste
parmesan cheese (can use powdered kind from can or fresh grated)

Cook macaroni as package directs. Make a white sauce by melting butter in small saucepan over low heat. Remove from heat and add flour. Return to heat and when it has the consistency of a cream, add 2 cups milk. Continue to stir on stovetop until it has the consistency of a thick sauce. Remove from heat and add cheese. Back on fire till cheese is melted completely. Add the extra 1/4 cup milk. Salt, pepper and garlic salt the macaroni before pouring the cheese sauce on. Mix well. Sprinkle parmesan cheese on top. Serve!

Oven French Toast Sticks - Sheia

In keeping with the breakfast theme I had to post another of Sheia's delicious recipes that our family tried tonight!

8-9 pieces Texas Toast
1/4 cup melted margarine
4 eggs
1/3 cup sugar
1/4 tsp. cinnamon
2/3 cup orange juice (drinking strength)

Using pizza cutter, cut each slice of bread into thirds to make "sticks." In bowl, mix margarine, eggs, sugar, cinnamon and orange juice. Dip breadsticks into mix. Place on greased cookie sheet. Pour any remaining dip over the French toast. Bake 25 minutes at 350. Turn sticks once half way through the baking time.

We enjoyed these dipped in Nauvoo Syrup - also a recipe I got from Sheia (see below.)


NAUVOO SYRUP/BUTTERMILK SYRUP

1 cup sugar
1/2 cup buttermilk*
1/2 tsp. baking soda
1 cube margarine
1 tsp. light corn syrup
1/2 tsp. vanilla

Mix all ingredients together (except vanilla) in a large saucepan. Boil for 5 minutes, stirring occasionally. Remove from heat and stir in vanilla

*Can use 2 Tbsp. powdered buttermilk + 1/2 cup water. Since I didn't have either of these I used 1/2 cup evaporated milk + 1/2 Tbsp. lemon juice.

Chickie Pig Eyes-Sheia

Chickie Pig Whats???
So that is the name our family came up with for this breakfast creation, which you may have had a variation of at some time in your life.To make Chickie-Pig-Eyes you need:
1 loaf Texas Toast bread
1 egg/person (and a little milk if you prefer your eggs scrambled)
butter or margarine
ham slices
cheese slices
salt and pepper
a biscuit or circle cutter
a griddle

Butter one slice of toast per person on both sides.
Cut out a hole from the middle of the toast with the circle cutter and save the centers.


Cut out 2 ham circles and one cheese circle per person.

Heat griddle to about 350-375 degrees and get ready to assemble FAST when griddle is hot.

Lay the bread on the griddle and start filling the holes in this order:
1 ham circle
1 egg (just crack it in there or pour in some eggs scrambled with a little bit of milk-enough to almost fill the hole)
salt and pepper the egg
1 cheese circle
1 ham circle

Let it toast on that side for a couple of minutes and then carefully flip over and toast on the other side. Toast your bread circles at the same time.

Wall-Ah! Chickie-Pig-Eyes!


Can serve with hot maple syrup. Works well to cut pizza style with a pizza cutter for little fingers to dip in syrup.

Let me know what you would call these and other variations you have heard of!